GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 32, 8 October 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] i United Presb Association.] Berlin, October 7. Over a thousand firms have intimated that they will participate in the San Francisco Exhibition. London, October 7. Marie Lloyd was granted admission to the United States, after an appeal to the Immigration Department, but refused to land and returned to England.

(Received 9,25 a.m.) London, October 7

The Admiralty has sold by auction three pioneer submarines of the Holand type. (Received 9.55 a.m.)

At the inquest on Jones, the escaped prisoner, Bateman, an Oxford undergraduate, gave evidence that he fired out of fear, believing Jones had a revolver. * As he was incapable of giving aid, he left the wounded man until Bateman's father came. They found Jones dead. . A verdict of manslaughter was returned against Bateman. rV, ' '.■: ' '

Underwriting is proceeding for the New Zealand three and a-half million four per cent, loan* at-98/ - : •" (Received 10.45 a.m.) Tok'io, October 7. 'ft '"is"officially reported that Prince Eatsurfi - hds^'collapsed*'' with :T 'brain complications.

London, October 7

Delegations from all the Protestant missionary societies tendered congratulations on the Wesleyan Missionary Society's centenary, which was celebrated in the Central Hall at Westminster. The King sent a message recognising the Society's noble wov& , Professor Sellin, an excavator at Jericho, has definitely located Sheehan at Balata, a'-short'distance east of Nablus.

Perth, October 7

The girl Molyneanx, who was hiding in a wardrobe while the tragedy was' enacted, ' states that she heard Odgers, after shooting her mother, say: "Well, I intended to do it." (Received 9.35 a.m.) Perth, October ,8.

The death* sentences on Thomas (18), and Williamson (23), who fatally garotted and robbed an immigrant have been commuted to imprisonment for life.